Recovery of the stocks of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) by spawner enhancement

• Main Author: Hilge, Volker
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Fisheries; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: http://aquacomm.fcla.edu/2964/; http://aquaticcommons.org/2964/; http://aquaticcommons.org/2964/1/InfnOnline_53_06_6_bf.pdf

The production of healthy high quality female European eel in recycle systems is proposed as a means to secure sufficient numbers of silver eel for spawning migration in order to meet the requirements of the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation for the recovery of the stock of the European eel. Main advantages besides checks for parasites and viral diseases and avoidance of elevated levels of specific pollutants are the easily controllable numbers of spawners to be released and a reduction of labour and costs that will occur when acting along the lines of the Commission’s proposal.